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CURRICULUM VITAE FATIMA SADIQI Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies Founder, Center for Studies and Research on Women, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez Founder, Gender Studies Program, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez Founder & Director, Isis Center for Women and Development Founder & Director, International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez Tel: (202) 914 3050 853 Email: [email protected] [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D.Linguistics, 1982, Essex University, Great Britain. M.A.Linguistics, 1980. Essex University, Great Britain. DiplomaTeaching Methodology, 1977, EcoleNormaleSupérieure, Morocco. B.A.English Language and Literature. 1976, with honors, Mohamed VUniversity,Morocco SPECIALIZATIONS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Transnational feminisms, African feminisms, Gender Studies and Women’s Studies and Feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa, women’s education, globalization and social change. 1 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS PERMANENT APPOINTMENTS September 1986 - Present. Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies,Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez. May 1997 – Present. Founding Director, Centre for Studies and Research on Women. Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez. September 2000-Present. Founding Director, Graduate Program “Gender Studies”, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez. This program has now developed into a Master and Doctoral Programs of Women’s and Gender Studies. September 2003-Present. Elected Member, Scientific Committee of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez. The first woman to hold this position at this university. September 2006 – Present. Member, Faculty Council, Faculty of Letters Saiss, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez.The first woman to hold this position in this faculty. January 2006-Present. Member of the administrative board, Royal Institute of Amazigh (Berber) Culture (IRCAM), a research-based institute. June 2006-Present: Director, Isis Center for Women and Development. Independent NGO whose main objective is to bridge the gap between academe and civil society. February 2011 – Present. Director of Academic Affairs, International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez. January 2010 - Present. President, National Union of Feminine Associations. A Transnational independent NGO. Since 1998– Present.Editor-in-Chief of the Languages and Linguistics International Journal OTHER PRODESSIONAL POSITIONS September 2015-June 2016: Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Washington DC). 2 September 2016-December 2016: Visiting Professor in Gender Studies, University of Zurich and University of Basel, Switzerland (in negotiation) November 2015-Present: UNESCO Selected Expert: . UNESCO SELECTED Expert and public Speaker: http://en.unesco.org/who-s-who- women-speakers/women-experts?language=en PUBLICATIONS SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS Daesh Ideology and Women’s Legal Rights in the Maghrib. (to appear in 2017. University of Columbia Press). Moroccan Feminist Discourses.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco.Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.(Second printing 2009).Largely acclaimed as the first international book on Language and Gender in the MENA region. Reviewed for various international and refereed journals such as Gender and language, International Sociology, Journal of Pragmatics, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. Images of Women in Abdullah Bashrahil’s Poetry. Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 2004. Grammaire du Berbère.Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997.(First grammar of its kind by a native speaker of the language.) Studies in Berber Syntax. Germany: Königshaussen and Neumann, 1986. CO-AUTHORED BOOKS Migration and Gender in Morocco (with Moha Ennaji).Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2008. A Grammar of Berber (with Moha Ennaji).Mohammédia: ImprimerieFédala, 2004. Manual For Teaching Berber (with Moha Ennaji). Casablanca: Foundation BMCE, 2004. Applications of Modern Linguistics (with Moha Ennaji). Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1994. 3 Introduction to Modern Linguistics (with Moha Ennaji).Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 1992.First textbook of linguistics by authors from the MENA region. EDITED AND CO-EDITED BOOKS Women and Extremism in Morocco. 2016. Fez: Zivik and INLAC Publications. The Escalation of Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls in the MENA Region. 2016. Rabat: Konrad Publications. Women’s Movements in the Post-“Arab Spring” North AfricaEditor.2016. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Morrocan Feminisms. 2016.Co-editor with Moha Ennaji and Karen Vintges.(Trenton: Red Sea Press). Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean. Editor (London: Routledge, 2013). Des Femmes Ecrivent L’Afrique. Co-editor with Amira Nowaira, Azza El Khouly and Moh aEnnaji (Paris: Karthala, 2013). Femmes et Médias dans la Région Méditerranéenne. Editor (Fez: Imprimerie Imagerie Pub Neon, 2012). Gender and Violence in the Middle East. Co-editor withMoha Ennaji, and Contributor (London, Routledge, 2011). Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Agents of Change. Co-editor with Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (London: Routledge, 2010). Femmes Marginalisées et Insertion Sociale. Editor and Contributor (Fez: Imprimerie Pub Neon, 2010). Women Writing Africa. The Northern Region. Co-editor with Amira Nouaira, Azza El Khouly, Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (New York: The Feminist Press, 2009). The French version of this anthology was published by Karthala (Paris) in 2013. Femmes et Education dans la Région Méditerranéenne. Co-editor with Moha Ennaji, and Contributor (Fez: Imprimerie Sipama, 2007). Women’s Activism and the Public Sphere: Local/Global Linkages. Special Issue. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Co-editor with Valentine Moghaddam, and Contributor, vol. 2, no 2.(Spring2006). 4 Femmes Méditerranéennes et Leurs Droits. Editor and Contributor (Mohammédia :Imprimerie Fédala, 2006). Femmes et Développement. Editor and Contributor (Rabat : Publications of Tarik Ibn Zyad, 2006). Femmes Méditerranéennes. Editor and Contributor (Mohammédia : Imprimerie Fédala, 2004). Language and Gender in the Arab World. Special Issue. Languages and Linguistics. Co-Editor with Margot Badran and Linda Rachidi, and Contributor (Mohammédia: Imprimerie Fédala, 2002). Language Studies. Special Issue. Languages and Linguistics.Editor and Contributor (Mohammédia: Imprimerie Fédala, 2002). Feminist Movements: Origins and Orientations. Editor and Contributor (Fez: Publications de l’Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, 2000). Linguistic Aspects. Special Issue.Languages and Linguistics.Editor and Contributor (Mohammédia: ImprimerieFédala, 1999). ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (* denotes refereed) *”Women’s Role in the Arabic Sciences of Language (Arabic linguistics)” (Forthcoming in 2017.The Encyclopedia of Language. Oxford University Press. *”A Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies in Morocco” (2016).In Rita Stephan, and Mounira Charrad (Eds.) 2016.Women Rising. New York : New York University Press. *”The Moroccan Feminist Movement (1946-2014) (2016).In Balghis Badri & Aili Tripp. (eds) 2016. Women Mobilizing in Contemporary Africa. London: Zed Press. *”Emerging Amazigh Feminist Nongovernmental NGOs” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 2016. 12(1): 122-125. *”Feminization of Authority in Morocco” (2015). In Gender, Power, Democracy, edited by Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth. 2014. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *”Women’s Organizing in Morocco in Light of A Post-Arab Spring Moment and an Islamist Government” (2015). In Zeina Zaatari (ed.) Encyclopedia of Women 5 and Islamic Cultures. Supplement XI. Political-Social Movements: Community Based. Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. *”The Center: A New Post-Arab Spring Space for Women’s Rights” (2016).In Women’s Movements in the Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa. Edited by Fatima Sadiqi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *“The Marginalization of Moroccan Women in Society and the Media” (2015).In Ennaji, M. ed. Minorities and Women in North Africa. Trenton: The Red Sea Press). *“Berber and Language Politics in the Moroccan Educational System” (2014), in Moha Ennaji (ed) Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa. London: Routledge. *“The Potential Within: Progressive Ijtihad in the Practice Moroccan Judges’ Adjucations on Shiqaq (discord) Divorce” (2013), in Elisa Ada Giunchi (ed) Adjucating Family Law in Muslim Courts. London: Routledge. *”Women and Islam in Morocco” (2013), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women. Oxford University Press. *“Women’s NGOs and the Struggle for Democracy in Morocco” (2013), in Galia Golan and Walid Salem (eds) Non-State Actors in the Middle East. Factors for Peace and Democracy. London: Routledge. 2011-2012 *“Oral Knowledge in Berber Women’s Expressions of the Sacred” (2012). Karl, P. Rath, Sura P. And Wangugi; M. Journal of Contemporary Thought. Global South Cultural Dialogue Project. Denton: Forum on Contemporary Theory and Louisiana State University. *”Women’s Activism and the New Family Code Reforms in Morocco” (with Moha Ennaji).The IUP Journal of History and Culture. Volume Vol. VI No 1 (Hyderabad: The Icfai University Press. January 2012). *“Domestic Violence in the African North.”In Al-Raida. A quarterly journal published by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW). December 2011. *“The Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco.”Pp. 33-44 in Joshua Fishman and Ofelia Garcia (eds), Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).